The Timing of the Blow… Have you wondered why the Supreme Court released their decision, abolishing a woman’s right over her own body, on Friday morning? We knew it was coming because they told us it was coming. …

One of the bizarre consequences of the Trump Era is that I have found myself being profoundly grateful to people who I was very used to seeing as my enemies: The F.B.I. I’ve been cursing these creeps my whole life for hounding MLK and other radical activists. Then, in 2016…

There are two causes of the latest mass shooting tragedy in Buffalo: The very active white supremacy movement in this country, and… The failure of gun control and the shocking proliferation of guns. The first cause, white supremacy, is a complex issue, and the solution to the problem isn’t clear…

Right now I am lying down talking into the Notes app on my iPhone. Then I’ll paste the text into an email, send it to myself, and edit it, sitting. Why am I doing this instead of just banging away at my computer the way I always have? Because I…

Has anyone else noticed that our newly confirmed Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, describes herself as a dark-skinned Black woman? Not just a Black woman but a dark-skinned black woman. She is owning something that is rarely talked about when we talk about race: That the burden of discrimination…

What is happening in Ukraine is horrible and thrilling. The people there are simply unwilling to surrender to a superior violent force. Even old women are learning to shoot rifles! From a pacifist viewpoint, this only adds to the tragedy. …

My entire adult life I have been protesting against my own country’s invasions of other countries — first Vietnam, which went on for years, and then our first invasion of Iraq in 1990 and then Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq again in 2003. It was always extremely clear that whatever…

We just had an election to recall the Governor of California in September 2021. That recall failed. On February 15, in San Francisco, we had another recall election to recall three San Francisco School Board members. This time it succeeded. A recall is a kind of state or city version…

The holiday season always makes me think of my immediate family, which is no more. We were a close family, my father, my mother and my sister Nancy and me. My parents were very affectionate. I was particularly close to my father. Our special connection began early. I was not…